Zygomycosis (absidiomycosis) in an AIDS patient

✍ Scribed by Andrew G. Smith; Carlos I. Bustamante; Glenn D. Gilmor

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 443 KB
• Volume: 105
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00443823

✦ Synopsis

Absidia corymbifera is rarely cited as a cause of zygomycosis in the human host. Presented here is a case of absidiomycosis in a 29 year old construction worker hospitalized with a 6 year history of intravenous drug abuse, serological evidence for HIV infection, and the symptomatology of AIDS. A C T scan and gallium uptake imaging identified a nonfunctioning right kidney. Following a biopsy and a nephrectomy, histopathology revealed hyphal components consistent with zygomycosis. Culture of the biopsy and surgical specimens yielded A. corymbifera. Clinically the patient responded well to amphotericin B therapy.